Gal

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English

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Abbreviation

gal or gal. (plural gal or gals)

  1. gallon
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Etymology

Representing an upper-class pronunciation of girl.

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Noun

Gal (plural Gals)

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A girl.
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Etymology

Shortened from galileo

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Noun

gal (plural gals, symbol Gal)

  1. A galileo.
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Anagrams

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Irish

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Noun

gal f

  1. steam
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Noun

gal m

  1. valor
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Old English

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Etymology

From Germanic, perhaps from Indo-European *ghoilos ‘frothing, tempestuous, wanton’. Cognate with Old Saxon gēl (Dutch geil ‘salacious, lustful’), Old High German geil (German geil ‘lustful’), Old Norse geiligr ‘beautiful’. The IE root may also be the source of Lithuanian gailùs ‘sharp, biting’, Russian зело ‘very’.

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Pronunciation

IPA: /ga:l/

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Adjective

gāl

  1. wanton, lustful; wicked
    And se Iouis wearð swa swyðe gal þæt he on his agenre swyster gewifode. And Jove became so depraved that he married his own sister. (Wulfstan, De Falsis Deis)es:gal

fr:gal io:gal it:gal la:gal nl:gal pl:gal sv:gal zh:gal

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